Michael Cash wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:48:20 +0900, Brett Robson
> <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
>>m. lamphier wrote:
>>
>>>Actually, I think Japan is going to become an immigrant country over
>>>the next 50 years, i.e. a significant fraction of its population
>>>growth will come from immigration.
>>
>>I don't know, Japan can be pretty stubborn.
> 
> I think there will be a lot of in/out migration. Don't know if it
> would be appropriate to call it "immigration", though.

I was reading last month's Nagoya edition of the AGAPE newsletter today 
after mass (the newsletter doesn't always make it out to Okazaki, so 
today I got October & November). It refers to advocacy for "Refugees, 
Migrants, and People on the Move". I don't think academic demographers 
refer to the latter as People on the Move" - but thinking about it there 
are a shiteload of them, and they will only increase (the people on the 
move that is, not necessarily the demographers).

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